Biden&Blinken’s
Ukraine War Begetting
Holocaust: Facts, Footnoted – Updated 11Feb24
© 2022 Louis R. Coatney, but anyone is free to re-publish this as widely as possible.
By refusing to negotiate a fair peace and security treaty with Russia and allowing if not encouraging Europeans to get into confrontation with it, President Joe Biden has criminally forced the Russians into this latest “neoconservative” [1] war – holocaust – of ours, for which which he and we set them up.
SECTIONS:
Nuremberg’s verdict
Those ultimately and specifically responsible for the Ukraine War
Vitally needed Trust, prior betrayals by the West, and previous Biden McCain & Lieberman dictatorship attempt during Kosovo
Our Kiev coup – not revolution – and the aftermath [2]
Russia’s fully justified need for a fair and comprehensive peace and security treaty – Putin as a Child of Holocaust Survivors – Ukrainian (Neo-)Nazis
Buffer states and our national security double standard
Biden&Blinken’s 9 motives for wanting the Ukraine War and pushing it
The climaxing nuclear war danger and (absence of) civil defenses in the U.S. and Europe
The bored-with-peace, war-eager European lemmings
“What then must we do?”
NUREMBERG’S VERDICT:
On October 5, 1946, The Economist reported at the conclusion of the Nuremberg war crimes trials “But responsibility for the war itself has been the central charge in the Nuremberg indictment, and the Tribunal has declared in its judgment: "To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.””[3]
That is, starting a wrongful, unnecessary war is the worst war crime begetting all the ones that follow.
THOSE ULTIMATELY AND SPECIFICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UKRAINE WAR:
The Ukraine War is already a holocaust which has already nearly set off a nuclear disaster, and all this is being blamed on the Russians for invading. However, the war was enabled and instigated by the West – specifically by American President Joseph Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken - forcing it on the Russians by rejecting their legitimate need for a security treaty, giving them no choice but war, and then Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky specifically triggered the attack by intimating Ukraine was open to receiving nuclear weapons.[4]
And all this is omitted from Western media, of course.
VITALLY NEEDED TRUST, PRIOR BETRAYALS BY THE WEST AND PREVIOUS BIDEN McCAIN & LIEBERMAN DICTATORSHIP ATTEMPT DURING KOSOVO:
Note former Secretary of State George Shultz’s 100th birthday 11Dec20 Washington Post article lamenting the loss of Russia’s trust in us we had when Reagan and Gorbachev were presidents. [5] After our 2014 Kiev coup, the Russians have realized their distrust in us was justified, and they are under attack by the West. And the previous time that happened, they lost 18 million dead Russian men, women, and children. (9 million other innocent Eastern people died in the Nazi 1941-45 war on the East.)
The West has broken basic security promises to the Russians, as described in The National Interest’s 12Dec17 article, “Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev [was] Told NATO Wouldn’t Move Past East German Border,” but in 1999 NATO did so anyway, adding Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Russia-hating Poland.[6] Worse in 1999, NATO then forced its Kosovo bombing war on the Yugoslavs – Serbs – with its unconditional/occupation/surrender ultimatum, Appendix B of the Rambouillet Treaty, and the war was stopped only after U.S. Senator Don Nickles in Congress, I in American Academia, and Henry Kissinger in the 31May99 Newsweek (“New World Disorder”) exposed Appendix B, getting it rescinded.[7][8]
The Serbs had been willing to negotiate Kosovo – the Russians were urging a partition – so the war was unnecessary until (for the Serbs) our ultimatum, making the war a war crime perpetrated by NATO and its leaders. [9]
And Vladimir Putin has repeatedly cited our Kosovo injustice as additional grounds for Russia’s counter-moves to NATO’s aggression in his March 2014 speech justifying the taking of the Crimea and now the Ukraine War. [10]
But note also that in 1999 Joe Biden and his good Senate friends John McCain and Joe Lieberman attempted to get Bill Clinton’s Democrat administration war/dictatorship powers, just using the Kosovo war as the pretext – voted down by the U.S. Senate which knew what was going on, 78-22. [7 again]
Then came our unjustified wars of aggression against Iraq, Libya (with NATO), and Syria, and Joe Biden, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan supported all 3 of these war crimes.
At least half a million innocent men, women, and children died, and countless more millions were physically and/or psychologically maimed and/or made refugees from Iraq alone.
No less offensive are the Western neocons’ regime change attempts, which caused not only wars in the Mideast but was the motive for the Ukraine coup and recently the attempted overthrows of the governments of Belarus and Kazakhstan and even – in Siberia – Russia itself, as led by the dissident Navalny.
These are Acts of War.
And then there is as well the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.
And a nation under attack deals harshly with dissenters it classes as traitors – that was the mission of our own Office of War Information during World War 2 which, for example, suppressed the truth about the Soviet NKVD’s 1940 massacres of 25,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia at Katyn and elsewhere. [My thesis about Katyn as a Cold War issue, 11]
And it should be remembered here that the NKVD had already murdered the forward, mobile warfare thinking half of the Red Army officer corps, essentially decapitating the army and helping the early success of the Nazi invasion no end. However, being under attack by the West again, many Russians now instead venerate Stalin as a successful, rallying war leader.
OUR 2014 KIEV COUP – NOT REVOLUTION – AND THE AFTERMATH:
But the real (Budapest) peace agreement [12] breaker threatening the Russians with the possibility (rather, probability) of aggressor NATO all the way up to Kharkov at their throats was the West’s 2014 Kiev coup – no “revolution” for those 4 obvious, objective reasons.[2] And Joe Biden was right in there with John McCain and other “neocon” war hawk senators to try to legitimize the new coup government.
When there had been a pro-Soviet coup on strategic Grenada in 1983 within our inner security zone, we certainly counter-moved, taking the island, and in response to the Kiev coup the Russians – waiting until the Sochi Winter Olympics were over – took the Crimea (albeit then holding a decisive referendum supporting that) and supported the separatist uprising and war in East Ukraine.
The Russians knew America’s Election 2016 was a choice between Donald Trump or World War 3, and they put 40 million of their people through nuclear war drills, correctly expecting WW3 if Hillary Clinton had won.[13] Miraculously, she didn’t, although the Democrats, John McCain, and British intelligence tried to regime-change overthrow even our (2016 election) government, with “former” MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s “dodgy dossier.”
Joe Biden had long supported adding Ukraine to NATO, which would be intolerable to Russia and provoke a nuclear confrontation. This was the most obviously dangerous and important issue and question for the last, foreign policy Campaign 2020 presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker, but she didn’t ask it (and was apparently rewarded for that in Biden’s first, very choreographed press conference by being allowed to ask a question) and the very real danger we are facing right today passed unnoticed by American voters.
RUSSIA’S FULLY JUSTIFIED NEED FOR A FAIR AND COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AND SECURITY TREATY – PUTIN AS A CHILD OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS – UKRAINIAN (NEO-)NAZIS:
After NATO’s aggressions and our past broken promises/agreements and our Kiev coup, and with Biden now President, the Russians have wanted a full and comprehensive peace and security treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of countries – some long hostile – in their inner security zone, like the Monroe Doctrine we impose in our own hemisphere.
And the Russians do – or did – not want a war. They far better than us know what total war means. Putin’s own family suffered during the Siege of Leningrad – his 2 year old brother Viktor whom he never knew dying of malnutrition and starvation and his mother nearly dying. Indeed, the Nazis surrounded and starved Leningrad, essentially turning it into a concentration camp, and Vladimir Putin should be psychologically regarded as a Child of Holocaust Survivors.[14]
Putin’s National Interest article was at least as much an appeal for understanding which was instead generally (and foolishly and dangerously) mocked for its opposing view of modern European history.[15]
Like many in the KGB, he envied and admired the West but didn’t trust us, but the Russians went along with Boris Yeltsin’s attempt to democratize Russia and gain admittance into the Western community. Putin actually once said he was “saddened” after some new wrongful action by the West. Now, he only hates us.
But what arouses the Russians especially is the Ukraine coup government’s connection with the neo-Nazi Right Sector and other ultra-nationalists. Not only were they the snipers in the coup, they are the most ruthless supporting the resulting government.
In 2017, there was actually a remembrance rally which included Nazi saluting and symbols for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) which exterminated many thousands of innocent Polish as well as Jewish men, women, and children during World War 2.[16] In the Nazi concentration camps, the UPA guards were far more sadistic than the Germans, probably in revenge for the Bolsheviks’ forced Holodomor starvation of (UN:) 6-7 million Ukrainian innocents.
And there is the Azov Battalion – currently surrounded in Mariupol – which models itself on and uses the symbol of the 2nd Das Reich SS Division (which massacred villages on the Eastern Front as well as Oradour in France) and which is accused of atrocities in East Ukraine. Even Democrat U.S. Congressmen wanted it declared a terrorist organization.
Furthermore, there were only 2 countries voting against anti-Nazi/anti-neo-Nazi UN General Assembly Resolutions 169 (16Dec20 during Pompeo&Trump … of course) and 149 (16Dec21 during Blinken&Biden), and they were Ukraine and – even after all the fuss about Tony Blinken’s stepfather being a Holocaust Survivor – the U.S. And now in this year, 50 mostly Western and/or NATO countries voted against 100 countries (including Israel) in the rest of the world who still voted for it. [17] That defines Ukraine to be Nazi and us to be its collaborators. Zelensky is just its front man.
These factors are why the Russians are accusing today’s Ukraine government of being a Nazi government, adding to their fear of another holocaust from the West.
BUFFER STATES AND OUR NATIONAL SECURITY DOUBLE STANDARD:
Some weeks ago, the Russians counter-threatened to base their forces in Cuba and Venezuela and our Jake Sullivan stated we would not tolerate that. More serious – but nonetheless overlooked by Americans and Europeans – was the assassination of President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse who had made the apparently fatal mistake of warming up to China, by Colombian mercenaries (who then sought escape/concealment in the Taiwanese embassy!) of the kind who have served us in the past.[18]
After all the war crime wars the West has committed in the past 20 years, this “exceptionalist” “national security” double standard hypocrisy of ours is dangerously enraging alone.
Any country on a superpower’s border or within its inner security perimeter which thinks it can do anything it wants – like joining an alliance with opponents of that superpower – is making a foolish mistake and is not worth going to World War 3 for … and getting everyone’s loved ones/children killed.
And Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was apparently emboldened at the Munich Security Conference by other Europeans to foolishly intimate that Ukraine might even choose to possess nuclear weapons which appeared to be the specific trigger for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a couple days later, in self-defense.[4 again]
BIDEN&BLINKEN’S 9 MOTIVES FOR WANTING THE UKRAINE WAR AND PUSHING IT:
If Joe Biden and Tony Blinken had instead supported giving the Russians the fair security treaty we owe them, after our past broken promises and Kiev coup, the Europeans would have had to have gone along with it, and this already terrible and terminally dangerous war could have been avoided.
I identify 9 motives for Biden&Blinken&neocons wanting the Ukraine War:
1. To return the world to an economically and politically (and militarily) segregated bipolar Cold War state, to safeguard Western economic and political hegemony. The old New World Order agenda which Joe actually gaffed he wants disinterred!
2. To pursue the World War 2 strategy of knocking off the European opponent before the Asian opponent, to regain for the U.S. and West strategic military hegemony.
3. To have a major war to finally get that Democrat war powers dictatorship Joe Biden, John McCain, and Joe Lieberman tried to get in 1999 just using our Kosovo war as the pretext, and the Washington Post has already eagerly hailed Joe Biden to be a “wartime president.”
4. Consistent with the Democrat line that Trump and the Republicans were and are pro-Russian to the point of treasonous, to politically polarize Americans into “pro-war patriots” vs. “anti-war traitors” – the latter like myself being rational, realist dissidents opposing the holocaust their pro-superpower-war policy is propelling us into.
5. To have a neocon “major war” to spur the economy. [22]
6. To “re-unite” the Country with – what else? – a war, except there won’t be anything left of it/us to re-unite.
7. Regime change, as Joe himself recently indiscreetly confirmed, hoping that the Russian people will rebel politically, especially if the war appears to be going badly as it appears it is. Except Russia has now declared martial law.
8. To deflect public attention away from charges that Joe and Hunter Biden were themselves involved in corrupt Ukraine machinations. [24]
9. To deflect public attention away from the Ukraine government’s illegitimacy – being a coup government – and its neo-Nazi backers.
And Joe Biden was actually talking up the war happening – “Prepare for impact!” – to Volodymyr Zelensky’s great nervousness. The Ukrainian people are in his quagmire too.
But even more indictingly, in his 26May22 Wash. Post column David Ignatius glowingly (and indiscreetly) describes Biden et al “secretly planning” the war.
And now we have the bombshell report that in his May 2022 interview Pope Francis did not just quote concern about NATO barking at Russia’s door, he stated
“We do not see the whole drama unfolding behind this war, which was, perhaps, somehow either provoked or not prevented.” [23]
THE CLIMAXING NUCLEAR WAR DANGER AND (ABSENCE OF) CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE U.S. AND EUROPE:
Stirring up the Ukraine proxy war into a real one, our “neoconservative” leaders seem to be intending to have a nice controlled, if nuclear war with Russia just in the Ukraine and Arctic sideshows. However, Russia has made it clear that any West vs. Russia (nuclear) war will instead be its direct nuclear war against our countries responsible for it.[21]
And while Russia has been maintaining its civil defenses, those of America and its NATO allies have been left criminally neglected, guaranteeing the horrible deaths of at least half of America’s and Europe’s innocent – men, women, and children – population and the suffering of the rest, albeit not of the elites well-accommodated in their own fallout shelters.
In Norway, for example, the deterioration of its once excellent fallout shelters was the subject of an NRK TV special [19], and the possibility of NATO missile submarines hiding out in Norwegian fjords and being targeted risks the danger of intense radiation contamination literally washing all over the country.
There is still contamination just from Chernobyl 1986 in Norway’s Dovrefjell central mountains. Iodine pills are being distributed, with the young getting triage priority, but they cannot deal with prolonged fallout exposure and can themselves be destructive if overdosed.
Every person in America and Europe should know beforehand exactly what fallout shelter – stockpiled with water, food, and medical and sanitation supplies (which include diapers) and having official (not vigilante or other) law enforced – they are supposed to go to, in the event of a coming nuclear war. A fallout shelter requires 12” of concrete or 18” of dense-packed/rammed earth overhead, and plastic sheeting and duct tape to seal broken windows from radioactive winds.
This compounds the crimnality of pro-war Western leaders risking their people in nuclear world war.
BORED-WITH-PEACE, WAR-EAGER EUROPEAN LEMMINGS:
A few years ago, Swedish University of Lund professor Jens Bartelson came to the Norwegian international affairs institute NUPI to push his book claiming war can be a good thing and is an inextricable part of European culture. (If he had been on trial in Nuremberg in 1946, he would have been hanged for this.) Significantly, he omits any mention whatsoever in his book about our “neoconservatives” in the West who have brought us to the brink of Armageddon.
And the Swedes along with the Danes and then the Norwegians were among the first to start sending individual antitank and antiair weapons to a Ukraine already at war, which the Russians could and may still interpret to be a retaliable Act of War itself.
(In any case, the Russians cannot afford the casualties to root out individual weapons like this. They will instead use areal napalm and thermobaric if not nuclear weapons which will incinerate all including innocent living creatures in their target areas. So contributing these weapons only prolongs the war and raises the scale of suffering and death, horribly – was abjectly stupid … and immoral.)
However, with Western media showing the suffering – like it did of, for example, innocent Syrian victims wrongly blamed on the Assad government in al Nusrah’s/Qaeda’s 2013 sarin gas Ghouta Massacre of 1,000 pro-Assad Alawite men, women, and children [20] – Americans and Europeans uninformed about who and what are really responsible for the tragedy are thinking emotionally – no longer objectively and fairly – and are stampeding lemming-like into nuclear holocaust.
And Putin and his media mouthpiece Kiselev have repeatedly warned that they will use nuclear weapons en masse, and the invasion of Ukraine itself verifies that they are dead serious.[21]
Meanwhile, without international unity to stop it, the human-induced boiling of Earth proceeds apace. The analogy of the war being fools fighting over deck chairs on our sinking Titanic/environment is absolutely right. Lemmings indeed!
Too many rice bowls in the West have been and are being filled by unnecessary, wrongful(, and nuclear) confrontation and war, soon to end in planetary holocaust and the complete and utter destruction of the West … and our loved ones … our children.
BIDEN, BLINKEN, AND/OR BORIS JOHNSON BLOCKED THE PEACE TREATY TO END THE WAR ALREADY IN MARCH 2022 [25]
“WHAT THEN MUST WE DO?”
As Linda Hunt’s Academy Award winning Billie Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously asked, “What then must we do?”
1. Urgently communicate to your Congresspeople your desire that the Russians’ case instead be fairly considered and respected and that they immediately be given a fair and comprehensive peace and security treaty, even if after their heavy casualties it won’t be what we/Ukraine could have gotten before we refused them.
2. Urgently communicate to your Congresspeople that we do not want our loved ones to die in a nuclear war they get us into and/or at least that emergency civil defense be immediaely implemented
… although people should have always had higher priority than war toys, again to begin with.
Louis Coatney is a retired American librarian and Vietnam era U.S. Army volunteer draftee veteran, living in Norway for my younger children(‘s protection)
[1]The West’s neoconservatives are coup-/revolution-/war-spreading (“Arab Spring”) utopians quite like the Trotskyist( communist)s their older members once openly were.
The “neoconservative” label is just for gullible conservatives/republicans who serve them. “Liberal” or “humanitarian interventionists” are the bottomline same, only in leftist double-speak.
Wiki: In July 2008, Joe Klein wrote in Time that today's neoconservatives are more interested in confronting enemies than in cultivating friends. He questioned the sincerity of neoconservative interest in exporting democracy and freedom, saying: "Neoconservatism in foreign policy is best described as unilateral bellicosity cloaked in the utopian rhetoric of freedom and democracy" as well as social welfare policy.
These are the neocons’ components:
- the wealthy Israel lobby first and foremost, which is why after Kosovo and then 9/11 we have perpetrated the Mideast holocaust wars we have. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum even endorsed our 1999 Kosovo bombing war, although our Rambouillet Treaty Appendix B ultimatum unjustifiably demanding NATO occupation of all Yugoslavia including Serbia unnecessarily forced the war on the Serbs, by Nuremberg making the war a war crime and thus the USHMM an accessory to that.
- the military industrial complex (MIC), even former General and exiting President Eisenhower was warning about on 17Jan61.
- the oil cartel
- leftist-if-not-utopian-Marxist Western academia
- Western mainstream media
- international bankers
[2] Kiev 2014 was a COUP, not a "revolution."
a. French neocon guru Bernard-Henri Levy - described as the "architect" of the Libya holocaust and in various photos with Sarkozy, Cameron, and even "me too" Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein (for his Oath of Tobruk propaganda film) ... and a Washington Post darling - led the agitation if not the coup itself.https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/bernard-henri-levy-remembering-the-maidan-385357.html
b. Ukraine pilot-heroine Nadezhda Savchenko - now a member of Ukraine Parliament - confirmed a couple years ago now that the snipers who killed the Heavenly Hundred demonstrators were anti-government, which escalated the protests with homicidal violence into the "revolution"/coup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Pashynskyi#The_Kyiv_Snipers'_Case
As I suspected it would be, it has been erased. Here it is - or was: The Kyiv Snipers' Case
On 18 February 2014, during the protests on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), a video appeared on the network in which Serhiy Pashynskyi takes sniper weapons out from the square - there was a hunting Norinco CQ-A carbine, clone of M4A1 variant of M4 carbine. The link to the video was posted on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.[15]
According to former officers of the Georgian army, snipers Koba Nergadze and Alexander Revazishvili, 19 February 2014, Serhiy Pashynskyi and Volodymyr Parasyuk brought bags with weapons to the Hotel "Ukraine". Pashynskyi ordered a group of snipers to shoot at protesters on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti and the soldiers of the Berkut. Pashynskyi also took part in the shooting, using a Kalashnikov 7.62 mm rifle. After a short turn, the snipers had to change their position.[16][17].
YouTube (as of 11Feb24): "Oppositionist" Sergei Pashinsky caught with sniper rifle but was saved by "protesters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nErNAbcWymc
There is a study presented by Univ. of Ottawa political studies professor Dr. Ivan Katchanovski verifying that the snipers who killed the Heavenly Hundred protestors - thereby escalating the demonstrations into a revolution/coup with false flag homicidal violence - were in buildings controlled by the anti-government opposition - not the government's Berkut security service. Title: The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Investigations. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4048494
And there is (or was) the report that 40 Ukraine Right Sector snipers were trained in Poland, in the left wing Polish journal Nie/No, edited by former Jaruzelski Communist government press secretary Jerzy Urban, who on 7 March 1989 stunned everyone publicly confirming that it was the Soviet NKVD who had massacred the Poles at Katyn and elsewhere and had indeed done so in early 1940. Although Urban had also disseminated disinformation in his job and is very leftist, this Nie article by Marek Miszczuk achieved credibility giving names of places - Legionowo Police Training Center - and officials apparently involved - the director, Dr. (again) Roman Stawicki - and confirmation of the 40 remarkable "students" from the Ukraine and their character from local townspeople. http://nie.com.pl/archiwum/tajemnica-stanu-tajemnica-majdanu/
This has disappeared, of course, but it is still cited elsewhere. Here is a typical article which refers to it: https://www.voltairenet.org/article183373.html
c. Timed to the Sochi Winter Olympics to delay and deter immediate Russian reaction which it did.
d. Arch-neocon Victoria "F the EU!" Nuland - her husband is Robert Kagan and her in-laws are Fred and Kim Kagan, all hardcore neocons - and our ambassador selecting Yats the banker for power. Then McCain, CIA's Brennan, and even Joe Biden going in there to try to legitimize the coup and its illegitimate government.
[3] https://www.economist.com/leaders/1946/10/05/the-nuremberg-judgment
[4] Ukraine makes nuclear status threat, 19Feb22, https://www.rt.com/russia/549994-ukraine-threatens-renounce-memorandum/
“Ukraine should not have given up nuclear weapons under Budapest Memorandum, says Ukraine’s FM,” New Voice of Ukraine, 21Feb22. https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-should-not-have-given-up-nuclear-weapons-under-budapest-memorandum-says-ukraine-s-fm-50218555.html
“During his speech at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 19, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would initiate consultations on the Budapest Memorandum.
“Ukraine is initiating consultations for the fourth time. And this is the last time,” Zelensky said. “If the consultations don’t happen again and there are no concrete decisions made, Ukraine would have the right to say the Budapest Memorandum does not work and (our) decisions of 1994 can be in question.” The Budapest Memorandum (Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) is an international agreement signed between Ukraine, the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom on Dec. 5, 1994.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-09/full-transcript-here-s-russian-president-vladimir-putin-s-victory-day-speech "Kiev declared that it could attain nuclear weapons."
[5] And I was at Gorbachev’s end-of-the-Cold-War speech in Fulton Missouri in May 1992, and we were all so happy and relieved it was OVER. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/11/10-most-important-things-ive-learned-about-trust-over-my-100-years/
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
[7] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-1999-05-03/html/CREC-1999-05-03-pt1-PgS4548.htm
[8] This 14May99 posting of mine set off a real firestorm on H-Diplo for the next few weeks worth reading, and it also got me observed walking to work by every level of law enforcement the next morning. https://lists.h-net.org/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=9905&week=b&msg=kpjsP0IkA283E2EWIFYvvA&user=&pw=
then confirmed on 8Jun99 there by SUNY’s Tom Grunfeld
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Kosovo
https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526137784/9781526137784.00010.xml “In his memoir of the Kosovo crisis, General Clark makes clear that he also believed that partition was the Russian objective.”
[10] https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/03/putin-ukraine-russia-nato-kosovo/ Why Putin Keeps Talking About Kosovo: For the Kremlin, NATO’s 1999 war against Serbia is the West’s original sin—and a humiliating affront that Russia must avenge.
[12] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/12/05/why-care-about-ukraine-and-the-budapest-memorandum/
“In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine, …””
[14] Vladimir Putin should be considered to be and be treated as a Child of Holocaust Survivors.
Isolating
and starving it, Hitler turned Leningrad into a concentration camp
which led to the death of Putin's 2 year old brother Viktor of
malnutrition and diphtheria and nearly the death of his mother. (I
heard the communist authorities came and took the little boy away
from his parents, because his father had been giving him some of his
food ration and was fainting at his
desk.)
His
father was the permanently wounded sole survivor of his commando
unit.
I grew up with Jewish kids of my postwar generation, and
they were all haunted - even sometimes hunted looks on their faces -
by the Holocaust.
Many if not most Russians of Putin's
generation are the same and viscerally fear another attack from the
West just like Jewish people instinctively fear another Holocaust,
and the neo-Nazis in Ukraine tremendously add to this fear.
I
consider his (in some cases like the Baltics history distorting)
National Interest article to have actually been his personal appeal
for Westerners' understanding ... which we coldly if not mockingly,
foolishly, and dangerously spurned.
The more the West demonizes
Putin, the more we alienate him and make him even more dangerously
enraged.
What if Gaddafi - wrongfully killed by us in our
neocons' Libya regime-change and war holocaust - had had Putin's
nuclear arsenal?
I believe he is prepared to take everyone - the
West he once envied and admired but now hates - down with him,
Samson-like.
[16] https://www.rferl.org/a/nationalists-mark-75th-anniversary-of-ukrainian-insurgent-army/28794861.html
https://carlbeckpapers.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cbp/article/view/164
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary-idUSKBN1GV2TY
[17] https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3894841?ln=en
Mention of the 2021 Resolution 149, 130-2-abstentions, is down in this: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/general-assembly-adopts-59-third-committee-texts-trafficking-persons-equitable-access
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html
[18] https://theweek.com/world/1002530/report-suspects-in-haitian-assassination-once-worked-as-us-law-enforcement-informants , 13Jul21.
[19] https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/de-glemte-rommene-1.14333670
[20] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n08/seymour-m.-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
[22] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/upshot/the-lack-of-major-wars-may-be-hurting-economic-growth.html
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-washington-has-lost-its-mind-over-ukraine-200513
https://www.ft.com/content/4ac031ca-5329-43c2-b7f1-07c9f84d80ef
[23] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/03/30/why-the-us-and-nato-have-long-wanted-russia-to-attack-ukraine/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/26/biden-white-house-secret-planning-helped-ukraine-counter-russia/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/pope-francis-ukraine-war-provoked-russian-troops
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